Quotes and Sayings about Disguise
"The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise."
- Mark Akenside
(Related: Disguise, Forget, Lies, Man)
"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
- Margaret Atwood
(Related: Age, Belief, Disguise)
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Truth)
"They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers."
- Jello Biafra
(Related: Disguise, Fact)
"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Virtue, Patience)
"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Education, Understanding)
"We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: American, Beginning, Disguise, May)
"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Men, Wisdom, God, Man, Strangers, Talk)
"With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed."
- Judy Chicago
(Related: Women, Work, Disguise, Impulses)
"You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love."
- Sri Chinmoy
(Related: Love, Hate)
"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises."
- Beverly Cleary
(Related: Friend, Books)
"Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Alcohol, Comfort, Drugs, Lies, Man, Moments, Myth)
"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Sympathy, Virtue, Selfishness)
"I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre."
- Jackie Collins
(Related: Truth, People, Bizarre, Disguise)
"What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise."
- Kitty O'Neill Collins
(Related: Disguise)
"Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Life, Time, People, Disguise)
"Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Opportunity, Failure, Disguise)
"I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises."
- Alan Cumming
"Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized."
- Jonathan Davis
(Related: Time, People, Earth, Fact, Trying)
"You can disguise any set with lights and shadows."
- Allan Dwan
(Related: Disguise, Shadows)
"Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Disguise, Illusion)
"In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented."
- Northrop Frye
(Related: Art, Work, Day, Invention, Law, Literature)
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
- John W. Gardner
(Related: Problems)
"I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise."
- Pam Gems
(Related: War, Disguise, Philosophy)
"There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11."
- Bob Graham
(Related: Disguise, Mistakes, Security)
"Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos."
- Joyce Grenfell
(Related: Progress, Chaos, Today)
"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."
- John Grierson
(Related: People, Being, Importance, Sense)
"I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work."
- Rupert Grint
(Related: Work)
"The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise."
- Cathy Guisewite
(Related: Life, Mom, Disguise)
"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Opportunity, Defeat, Misfortune)
"The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it."
- Brit Hume
(Related: Thought, People, Performance, Destruction, Disguise, Fun, President, Saying, Weapons)
"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
- Lee Iacocca
(Related: Problems)
"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."
- Jerome K. Jerome
(Related: Disguise)
"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise."
- Erica Jong
(Related: History, Cats, Disguise, Famous)
"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised."
- Juvenal
(Related: Vices)
"We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts."
- Barbara Kingsolver
(Related: Thoughts, Animals)
"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."
- Charles Lamb
(Related: War, Cards, Disguise)
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
- Ann Landers
(Related: Work, People, Hard work)
"Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Disguise, Man, Psychoanalysis)
"There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience."
- Amy Lee
(Related: Experience, Life, Music, People, Idea, Christian, Disguise, Hell, Spiritual)
"Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time."
- John Locke
(Related: Time, People, Day, Deeds, Disguise)
"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Love, Disguise, Eyes, Man)
"I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise."
- Gustav Mahler
(Related: Disguise)
"NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise."
- Leonard Maltin
(Related: Disguise)
"Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them."
- Horace Mann
(Related: Evil, Quarrel)
"There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism."
- Jonathan Mayhew
(Related: Patriotism, Disguise, Popularity)
"Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps."
- Willie Mays
(Related: Business, Baseball, Violence)
"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."
- Marshall McLuhan
(Related: Comfort, Rules, Today)
"Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still."
- Thomas More
(Related: Disguise, Rules, Will, Woman)
"We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Contradiction, Disguise, Falsehood)
"Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god."
- Francis Picabia
(Related: God, Forget, Man)
"Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed."
- Pindar
(Related: Truth, Man, Silence)
"Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Disguise, Praise, Satire)
"Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere."
- V. S. Pritchett
(Related: Time, Youth)
"The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work."
- Herbert Prochnow
(Related: Work, Opportunity, Hard work, Trouble)
"I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me."
- Paul Putner
(Related: Comedy)
"Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life."
- Herbert Read
(Related: Life, Forget, Problems, Solution, Unconscious)
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Disguise, End)
"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Love, Disguise)
"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Ambition, Generosity, Interest, Order)
"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Habit)
"Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Reality, Vices)
"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Love, Power, Hatred, Idealism)
"Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Happiness, People, Contempt, Disguise, Hatred, Race)
"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."
- George Santayana
(Related: Beauty, Disguise, Lovers)
"Hills are speedwork in disguise."
- Frank Shorter
(Related: Disguise)
"Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels."
- John Sladek
"It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary."
- Gerrit Smith
(Related: Men, War, Peace, Effect)
"And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that."
- Todd Solondz
(Related: Change, People, Disguise, Dress, Hate, Saying, Want)
"Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise."
- Bishop Robert South
(Related: Art, Appearance, Disguise, Mirth, Spirit, World)
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
- Charles R. Swindoll
"The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise."
- Publilius Syrus
(Related: Disguise, Heir, Laughter, Weeping)
"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Thoughts, Disguise, Man, Speech)
"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise."
- Mother Teresa
(Related: Disguise)
"Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content."
- Michael Tilson Thomas
(Related: Music, Content, Extreme)
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."
- Gore Vidal
(Related: Time, People, Disguise, Language, Vote, Will, Words)
"But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man."
- Mercy Otis Warren
(Related: Truth, Feelings, Heart, Man, Sense, Suffering)
"Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise."
- John Webster
(Related: Disguise, Lust, Witty)
"It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own."
- Julius Wellhausen
(Related: Success, Disguise, Opinions)
"Naked is the best disguise."
- Jeanette Winterson
(Related: Disguise)
"What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth."
- Slavoj Zizek
(Related: Disguise, Myth, Socialism)